Baling-press



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' .E. M. PINE. BALING PRESS.

N0.456,057.- I Pathted Ju1' 14,1891.

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E. M. PINE- BALING PRESS.

o. 45 ,057. Patent-ed July-14, 891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

EDWIN M. PINE, or PUYALLUP, WASHINGTON.

BALlNG-PRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,057, dated July 14, 1891. Application filed November 25, 1890. Serial No. 372,616. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN M. PINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Puyalin p, in the county of Pierce and State of \Vashington,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a I-Iop-Baling Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a machine for packing hops by hand power.

My improvement consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure I is a front elevation of my improved baling-press. Fig. II is a side elevation thereof, showing the double latch. Fig. III is a top view of the same. Fig. IV is a horizontal section on the line IV IV, Figs. I and II. Fig. V is a side elevation of the follower-beam. Fig. VI is a top view of the follower.

1 are the horizontal sills, 2 are the uprights, 3 are the cross-beams, and at the platform, of the main frame. The uprights are secured together by tie-rods 5. G is the pressbox, having vertical openings 7 at the sides thereof and supported bythe uprights. The

. platform is formed with openings 8, one at each side of the press-box. IVithin the latter is fitted a follower 9, secured to a beam 10, whose ends 11 project through the verti cal openings of the press-box and pass through the openings in the platform. The follower is secured to the beam by straps 12, passing through battens 13 and throughthe follower and fastened by nuts 14.

15 is the baling-chamber, formed by the doors 16, strengthened by battens 17, and removable side pieces 18, strengthened by battens 19. The doors are supported on bars 20, hinged atone end, and are secured at the other end by means of two latches 21, pivoted to the side of the press and engaging their ends. The latches are coupled together by means of a handle 22, and are locked in engagement with the bars 20 by means of buttons 23, piv= oted eccentrically over the upper latches. The tops of the side pieces of the bal'ingchamber are beveled to fit the lower ends of the side pieces of the press-box, which are .correspondingly beveled, and are held in place by backing-blocks 24. The side pieces are also held in position by means of anglebrackets 25 on the doors engaging with the beveled ends of their battens 19.

Supported on the projecting portions of the sills are blocks 26, rigidly secured to the sills by means of the bolts 27. Sui-mounting these blocks'are bearings 28, secured by bolts 29 to the blocks. I

Mounted on and preferably bolted rigidly to the bearings are shafts 30. Each shaft has loosely mounted thereon a combined sprocketwheel 31 and ratchet-wheel 32, which may be cast integral.

33 are chains, each secured by means of a large link 34 to the end of the follower-beam and adapted to fit the recesses and pins of the sprocket-wheel,so as to be drawn around the latter for causing the follower to press the contents of the box down into the balingchamber. Each shaft carrying a sprocketwheel and a ratchet-wheel is rotated by means of a lever 35, having double pawls 3(3 37, and

is journaled in cheek-plates 38, secured to anouter block by means of bolts 39.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure Letters Patent for, is

1. The combination of the sills 1, the up rights 2, the cross-beams 3, the platform 4, having end openings 8, the press-box 6, having the baling-chamber 15 and vertical openings 7 at the sides, the doors 16, the side pieces 18, the beam 10, having ends 11 projectin g through the vertical openings, the follower, the beam 10, the blocks 26, the bearings 28, the shafts 30, the combined sprocket and ratchet wheels 31 32, loosely mounted on the shafts, the chains having links 3% secured to the ends of the follower-beam and passed around the sprocket-Wheels, the'cheekplates 38, and the levers 35, having double pawls 36 37 and journaled in the cheekplates, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the sills 1, the uprights 2, the cross-beams 3, the press-box 6, having the baling-chamber 15, the removable side pieces 18, having the battens 19 formed with beveled ends, and the doors 16, having angle-brackets 25 engaging-the beveled ends of the battens, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the sills 1, the uprights 2, the cross-beams 3, the press-box 6, having the baling-chamber 15, the doors 16, having bars 20 hinged at one end and projecting beyond the doors at the other end, the latches 21, pivoted to the side of the press, handles 22, by which the latches are coupled together, and the eccentrically-pivoted buttons 23 over the latches, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the sills 1, the uprights 2, the cross-beams 3, the press-box 6, having the baling-chamber 15 and sides formed with beveled lower ends, the side 

